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Crash I went the beautiful cut-glass
vase on th» stone stepB, and down at
the feet of the culprit lay the crushed
roses amid the glittering ruin.
"Oh, Maud I" cried a low, grieved
voice.
A whito robo, dainty and perfumed,
flashed through the open door in angry
haste, and paused besido the gingham
dress of tho cnlprit.
" I knew it I" retorted a high-pitched
voico, in calm despair. "Each duv
sees my opinion of you verified, Kath
leen. You are not to bo trusted 1“
" Surely, Maud, yon do not think 1
purposely broko your vase?” askod the
girl in gingham, looking half-proudly
at the angry face of her eleguntly-olad
companion.
Aluud Severn shiugged her shoulden
—she had learned how from hor French
master; and with her head on one sidi
the action gave her quite a foreign air,
she thought.
"What matters it whether yon did il
purposely or not?’’ sho retorted, con
tomptucusly, "Those great, awkward
bauds of yours are forover doing mis
chief—they aro truly good for noth
rug!”
Kathleen looked down at her brown
hands and snrilod sadly.
"True," &ho said, as she bent down
and pothered up tho lovely roses, that
seemed to cliug tenderly to tho lithe
brown fingers—" trne, good for noth
ing as things count in your world,
Maud; but we are not at the end ol
time yet, and my retard may read dif
ferently then!"
“What nonsense! You will never
bo ladylike or grateful, so do your best
with your other virtues," cried Maud,
angrily, ns the proud, quiet manner ol
the other betrayed a natural dignity
she could not imitaco. “Put tho roseB
in another vase and clear away that
rubbish."
Kathleen was looking at tho broken
glass with a glad relief in her face.
" I can mend this, Cousin Maud," she
quietly said, “and it can be used with
safety.”
" It will take gentlor fingers than
yours," laughed Maud, coolly. " But
do as you please. Only, Kathleen”—
sho paused at the door, looking back
over her shoulder—* yon needn’t think
it worth while to appear to night.
Mamma thinks three unmarried daugh
ters sufficient to entertain the gueBts
without—”
“ A portionless niece of her dead hus
band’s," quietly interrupted the young
girl, with a far-away smile. " I under
stand, Maud. Don’t- think I shall re-
gret it. I do not like good-for-nothings
any more than you do.”
Maud stamped her foot angrily.
"At least the'new dootor is good for
something !’• she cried, eagerly, betray
ing her own tactics for the evening.
"So he should be, to fill the position
he assumes. I trust he has more ambi
tion than vanity, or the poor of Gilford
will suffer.”
Kathleen carried the vase within
doors, and though she wasquiok at rep
artee, there were tears none the less in
her gray eyes, and a wistful pain in her
heart. ,
But she quiokly completed her task
of arranging the table and flowers, be
sides numerous little touohes to fruits
and ices, without whioh the effect would
have been marred, if left to the one
clumsy servant, or tho indolent daugh-
ters of the house.
When all was done she felt free to
seek her own pleasure on that lovely
June evening. And a strange pleasure
it was for one so young.
She took down a broad-brimmed hat
from its familiar hanging-place behind
the kitohen-door-it was needed too
often in her daily duties to rest idly
beside her cousins’ on the hall-raek—
and in her simplo gingham dress, with
its neat, white collar, hastened quiokly
through the back garden out on to the
highway; add took the road to the vil
lage.
The new dootor 1" she pondered.
" Ah, how he has disappointed me 1 I
did hope that a clover, earnest phyBioian
would come to Gilford and help the
poor folk, and instead we have a fash
ionable, gay young man, who frequents
lawn parties and flirts with silly girls.
Oh, if I were only a man I"
Kathleen was orossinga muddy patch
in the road as she arrived at this wish,
and making a quick spring to the dry
side of the road, turned hor ankle with
a siokening pain and fell prostrate upon
the grassy bank.
"Oh, dear! Maud is right, after all,”
sho moaned, in despair, half-comical
aud yet painful withal. "Two miles
from the village or home, on a by-lane
very few frequent, and unable to move
with a sprained ankle."
And after summing up her position,
Kathleen first laughed, then cried.
" Poor old granny I" she sobbed.
" She will think I havo deserted her,
and she is so poor and ill, with no one
to earo for hor but me, aud now I can
not go to her."
"Perhaps I can help you," said a
pleasant voice from tho bank abovo hor.
Looking np quickly Kathleen met a
pair of frank, brown eyes, that looked
sensiblo enough to help her in her
foolish predicament.
I don’t know—’’ she began, du
biously.
"Well, there's nothing like trying,"
laughed the man on the bauk, and
down he oamo with a flying leap tc her
side. "What is it? Broke anything,
eh ?"
Kathleen had to laugh, ho was so
pleasant and breezy.
‘Oh, no; only twisted my ankle,”
she said, shyly.
Only I Humph! You are used to
makiog light of great matters, I see."
And to Kuthleen’s horror down he
dropped on his knees, and ooolly took
possosrion of her foot.
"So much for wearing a low (-hoe,"
lie said, half-angrily, as ho looked at
tho aotivo little foot, clad in an Oxford
He, and then deftly untied it and drew
it off.
Kathleen grew indignant and red.
" You need not trouble yourself—"
sho began.
"Bo still I I am a doctor, young
lady, and know what sprnius mean,” he
joolly retorted, moving tho foot
gently, though hor lips quivered with
the pain.
A doctor! Kathleen lookod full at
him in astonishment. Not tho new
doctor, surely!
“ You aro going to spoil two ongage
rnents for mo ibis eveniug, with this
foot, young Indy, so you must repay me
with obedience. At one place, music,
laughter and bright smiles await me,
to welcomo mo to my new homo ; at
tho other, a poor old woman is waiting
to thank mo for looking np my poor
the first thing after I take possession of
my practice.”
His frank eyes mot tho conscious
gray ones looking so eagerly at him,
"You speak of my homo and my poor
old woman I” she cried out, gladly
“ Oh, I am so rejoiced you aro good for
something 1”
He laughed heartily.
"Which you doubted. And so you
were going to see tho old woman when
this happened ? Then you aro—”
"Kathleon Sovern,” said the girl,
quietly.
“Doctor Oscar Ware, at your ser
vice,” retorted the cheery voice, as its
owner doffed his hat. "Now, Miss
Kathleen, I know nil about you, for
Granny Duff is garrulous, aud as you
are used to obedience I expect you to
mind me now. My horse is at the
blacksmith’s across tho field, where I
left him to be shod, while I came over
here to gather wild roses for a sick lad
in tho village, and while I go after him
you must sit still and wait for me.”
Kathloen felt her eyes droop with
sudden pain.
“ Thank you 1" she said, gently, with
sadness in her voice tnat made him
look at her. " I will accept your help
since I must.”
" Only because yon must ?”
"I am used to helping myself, but at
last I am useless.”
“ I am glad to be the first to offer
you help in your weakness," said the
frank voice, gently ; and then away he
sped aoross the field, leaving Kathleen
dazed with the sudden ideas and emo
tions, yet laughing low and shyly.
In a short while the dootor appeared
on the road, driving a light wagon be
hind a strong brown horse, whioh he
drew up before the mud-puddle, and
sprang down lightly beside the young
girl.
He raised her by her hand ou to one
foot; she put the other down carefully,
winced, turned pale, and before she
knew what next would happen, she was
caught up in a strong pair of arms and
lifted high above the mud into the
Wagon.
" There 1" said the cheery voice, as
the solf-reliant yonng man took np the
reins. "Your foot is all right, Miss
Kathleen. It is only strained a little ;
and by the day after to-morrow you
may try another jump."
Kathleen listened shyly; she was
feeling emotions so new and strange
that silence seemed to proteot her from
hers.lf, and throughout tho drive home
sho could only listen and rejoioe at the
brave nature of the new dootor.
Onco only sho spoke, to ask him to
drive in the back gate and through the
barnyard, so that her entrance might
not be seen from the house Then, as
he left her at the kitohen porch, and
gave her a little glass bottlo, with the
direotion to apply it to her foot until
the pain ceased, sho raised hor eyes and
said :
I am glad you have come here,
Dootor Ware. So many sad hearts
need you."
" But not bravo ones like yours ?’’ he
asked, sharply.
“ Even I,” she softly said, as sho
turned away.
Kathleen grew more cheerful as the
months went on, for her earnest, help
ful nature rejoiued that thore was now
another to care for and assist tho poor
and sad-hearted in the village.
A great pride grew in her as she
heard her cousins condemn the new
doctor as t|jp democratic and hard
working to suit their idlo tastes; and
her eyes and lips grew brighter each
day *as some new tale of his cheery
kindness oamo to hor through village
They met but seldom, and then only
a few words were uttered ; but Kathleen
(elt tho need of even those few words,
and she knew they helped her.
One day a letter came. She was not
surprised; it seemed to her as if the
time must como when hia nature would
claim hers, and sho was tremulous with
proud joy.
He spoke of their first meeting :
“ Of that task wero enamored my fingers,' I
woon,
For they lingered hill long o’er those fetters of
sheen.”
“She smiled mo hor thanks, and turned from
tho spot,
With a look in Iter eves I novor forgot,
For it seemed to say, in language too trne,
‘ rtou’st fottcrod thy heart iu tho string of my
shoo i’ ”
1 Good for something at last I" said
Kathleen, softly, as Bho told her tale to
cr Aunt and cousins ; and in the great
light that beamed from the gray, earnest
eyes, they felt their selfish natureb
shrink and grow pitifully small,
The Choice of a Saddle-Horse.
The selection of a liorso for tho sad
die is a common source of trouble to
thoso wishing to commenco riJing. Iu
the United Stales, at tho present time,
there is no lack of horses that, with
careful breaking, could bn made first
class saddle-horsts. Tho racing stables
of America furnish overyyoar a number
of horses not good enough to keep on
in training, yet excellent for park hacks
or for light-weight hunters. Theso ani
rnals can always be bought at low rates,
and when properly broken are safer and
far more lasting than oommon-bred
horses. Central Amorica possesses
breed of ponies of rare boanty and do
cility—charming household pets fur
ohildren. These littlo animals aro not
always to be found in tho United
States, and whon here they ore costly,
For larger boys and girls, the mustang
of the plains ought to bo a favorite
mount. Their many good qualities aro
not as yet fully reooguized. The mus
tang is believed by many to bo vicious,
unruly, and, in consequence, unsafe for
children; on the contrary, it is an intel
ligent, sturdy little oreature, fall of af
fection for a kind owner. Dreves o
mustangs aro from time to time brought
to New York by tho great cattle
shippeis, and in their wild state they
are snapped up by city dealers
prices ranging from 88 to 840 per head,
— The Century Mugazine.
Uku Autumn leaves Foil.
It is a curious phenomenon this an
nual fall of all the leaves from almost
all the trees in Northern climates; and
yot use has so dulled us to its strange
ness that we seldom even think abont
its origin or meaning in any way. In
deed, until certain late investigations
of the tertiary floras by M. Saporta, Mr.
8. Gardiner and others, it is doubtful
whether anybody had ever asked him-
solf any question upon the subjeot
at all. But these investigations
have shown pretty clearly that de-
oiduons trees are quite a modern
novelty upon our planet, things of the
last twenty or thirty millennia or so,
entirely due to the immens®cooling of
the earth's surface, which begau iu tho
early tertiary period and culminated in
the great glacial epoch. They are a
special produot of hard times at the
pole, liko tho white bears, the woolly
rhinoceros, the mammoth and the snow-
buntings. In tho tropics all the trees
are evergreens, or at least Buffer no
regular periodical loss of their foliage;
but in the North we have few nativo
evergreens except the pines and firs,
with their needle-like leaves, aud the
two or three hardy, broad-leaved
exotio evergrceens cultivated in our
gardens or shrubberies, such as
the rhododeudrons, tho laurels
and tho bay trees, together with our
own smaller holly, box and privet,
hardly suffice to convey a notion of the
great Southern forest trees, olad all the
year round in tbiok green, such as the
mangoes, tho star apples and the sand
boxes. Up to the beginning of the
tertiary period, however, largo ever
greens of what is now the tropical type
covered tho whole of the world, as far
as the very poles themselves. Green
land aud Spitsbergen then supported
huge forests of the same general char
acter as those which now spread over
Brazil and the Malay atohipelago. But
from tho first dawn of the eooene on'
ward somo combination of astronomical
and geographical causes, such as those
suggested by Dr. droll and A. R. Wal
laoo, began to produoe a general chill
ing of the tompeiaturo at either pole.
Perhaps the effect was wholly due, as
Dr. Oroll believes, to the occentrioity
of the earth’s orbit aud the precession
of the oquinoxes; perhaps it was further
aided, as Mr. Wallace suggests, by the
elevation of great mountain ranges
about the polar regions, which became
nurseries for immense glaciers, and so
supplemented the natural chilling due
to tho oosmical cycles. At any rate
whatever theory wo may adopt for its
explanation, tho fact itself remains cer
tain that from the eocene ago np to the
glacial epoch tho climato of- tho earth
grow steadily colder, tho chango being
of course most markod at either polo,
aud least noticeable in tho equatorial
.listrict.—Pall Mull Gazette.
CLIPPINGS FOR CVRIOVS.
COMICALITIES.
Only one hog in 10,000 is afflicted
with trichinm.
A Paris clothing house is rtftming its
sewing machines by electricity.
The people dare not even move their
lips when the Japanese emperor passes
by.
The arrival of foreigners in the
United States during the last decade is
counted at 2,813,000.
Four barrels of the water of the Great
Salt lake will leave, after evaporation,
nearly a barrel of salt.
At a temperature of fifty-six degrees
Fahrenheit Dr. Kane kept his men in
good health by devoting a part of the
long night of tho Arotio regions to bur
lesque and pantomime.
A process has been discovered for
making flour from tho seed of tho
broom corn, to the extent of one-half
its weight, leaving tho other half a valu
able food for the cattle.
Fluting irons, or poking sticks, ns
they wore then called, made of steel,
in order to be used when hot, wero first
used in Queen Elizabeth’s time. Be
fore then, setting stioks of wood or
boue wero used for stiffening ruffs, etc.
A Seraben carpet, ordinary sizo, say
twelve by fifteen feet, contains nearly
4,600,000 stitches. Tho weaver sits
with the reverse side of the oarpet to
wards him and weaves entirely from
memory. This fact will account for l he
irregularity so often found in Persian
carpets. _____
Tho papsr men are now running their
business into tho ground by manufac
turing paper coffins.
They asked him if ho was the-best
man nt tho wedding. "No,” he said;
" I don’t know as I was the best, but,
I was as good as any of ’em! ”
" The mill will never grin.d with the
water that is past," maybe, but the
hand-organ grinds right along with the
airs that aro pnst a couple of hundred
years.
A Chinaman ntmed On Tick is about
to start a laundry in Detroit. This will
leave no reasonable excuse for any one
to fail to appear in a olean shirt on
Snndays.
"Do not many a widower," said the,
old lady. '' A ready -made family fs like
a plate of Cold potatoes." " Oh, I'll
soon warm them over,” replied tho
damsel,.and sho did.
The father of n St. Lonis brido pre
sented bis son-in-law with 80,000 head
of cattle. "Papa, dear,” exclaimed his
daughter, when she heard of iti "that
was so kind of yon; Charley’s awfully
fond of ox-tail sohp."
Sho (bowitchingly)—"Oh, I am so
glad you’re goinu to seo me to my car
riape, Mr. Browncl" Ho (flattored)-
" Indeed, and may I ask why? ” She-
"Ob, because the girls are so jealous,
niid I want to 'prove that I do not
monopolize nil tho good-looking men."
Browne satisfied, but not so happy as
he expected to bo.
“Don’t Mention It."
A oitizen ol Detroit entered a Michi
gan avenue grocery the other day and
said he wanted a private word with the
proprietor. When they had retired to
the desk he began:
" I want to make confession and rep
aration. Do you remember of my buy
iDg sugar here two or three days ago?”
" I do.”
" Well, in paying for it I worked off
a counterfeit quarter on the olerk. It
was a mean trick, and I oamo to tender
you good money.”
" Oh, don’t mention it,” replied the
grocer.
“ But I want to make it right.”
" It’s all right—all right. We knew
who passed the quarter on us, and that
afternoon, when your wife sent down a
dollar bill and wanted a can of sardines,
I gave her that bad quarter with her
change. Don’t let. your conscience
trouble you at all—it’s all right!”—
Detroit Free Press.
Iu Ohina there are 2,000,000 opium
smokers, who annually spend 8126,000,-
000 on the drug.
I’nclalmvd Moneii Order*.
"Is it true,” inquired a Now York
porter of Postmaster Pearson, " that
there aro nearly $2,000,000 in the United
Statos sub-treasury, representing aocu-,
mulatioiis from unpaid money orders
for soveral years back ?”
Yes,” replied the postmaster. “ 1
suppose that iu round numbers they
hold about that amount belonging to
careless porsons whom it is impossible
foi us to find.”
What do you propose to do with
this money, Mr. Pearson ?”
Congress will probably be asked at
its next session to make some disposition
of it."
“ Why was not this done heretofore?’
"Well, there is no legal limitation to
the time when funds of this character
may bo accounted for. The postmaster
cannot tell when the parties to a money
order may correct fata 1 mistakes in the
order and demand their money. Yon
know wo must always bo prepared to
pay on legal demand."
" Can you give me a general idea of
the way in which such a large, un
claimed accumulation of money comes
abont?”
" Primarily it is dne to a look of
knowledge concerning the operations of
the law under which the money-order
system is organized. Then a great
many people who understand the pro
visions of this law are habitually care
less and overlook some of the necessary
details in makiDg out the order. For
instance, they may get the name of the
payee wrong, or they may neglect to
notify him by mail. Then, again, the
person to whom the money is sent may
be a traveling man, who has left the
town where the order is payable, and
may never return there again. No
legal provision has been made for ad
vertising for these people. The indi
vidual amounts whioh go to make up
the large sum of unpaid money-orders
in this office are, generally speaking,
small, and have no doubt long been for
gotten by the persons who sent them,
as well as by the persons who were to
receive them. All postoffices whioh do
a reasonably fair share of money-order
business have the same trouble to con
tend with, but some day or other Con
gress may definitely settle postal re
sponsibility in the matter.”
Hole Fred llongln** Escaped from
Sloven/.
In the Century M-igntine cx-Marshal
Douglass, of Washington, gives an qo
count of his oscapo from slavery. In
those days colored passengers leaving
Baltimore by rail wero obliged to ex
hibit papers showing that they were free
persons. Douglass had no freedom
papers, but hod a friend, o sailor, who
was supplied with certain government
papers that had at least an official look.
Baltimore was his starting point. He
arranged with a friendly linckman to
bring his luggago to tho station and ar
rived there himself just in time to jump
aboard the train, hoping in the confu
sion attending its departure to avoid ex
citing suspicion.
Ho says: " Iu my clothing 1 was rigged
out in Bailor style. I had on a rod
shirt and a tarpaulin hat, and a black
cravat, tied in sailor fashion, carelessly
and loo ely about my neck. My knowl
edge of ships and sailors’ talk came
muoh to my assistance, for 1 know a ship
from atom to stern and from keelson to
■•Voss trees, and oould tulle sailor like an
■ old salt.’ I was well on tho way to
Havre do Grace before the conductor
came into tho negro cur to oolloet tickets
ind examine tho papers of his black
iissengers. This was a critical moment
ia tho drama. My whole future do
pended upon the decision of this con
ductor. Agitated though I was while
the ceremony was proceeding, still, ex
ternally at least, I wuh apparently calm
and self-p ssessod. lie went on with
bis duty, examining several colored
passengers before reaching mo. He was
somewhat harsh in tone and peremptory
in manner until he reached me, when,
strange enough and to my surprise and
relief, his whole manner changed. See
ing that I did not readily produce my
free paper.), a3 the other colored persons
in the car had done, he said to me, in
friendly contrast trith his bearing to.
ward the others:
"‘I suppose you have your free
papers ?’
“ To which I answered:
"‘No, 6ir; I never carry -my free
papers to sea with me.’
" • But you have something to show
hat you are a freeman, haven't you?’
"‘Yes, rir,’ I answered; 'I have a
paper with tho American esgle on it,
aud that will oarry me wound tho
world.’ ”
At Havre de Graco he met a young
colored man whom he knew and who
seemed curious to find out his businei s
so far from homo. He got rid of this
difficulty only to encounter another. At
tho window of a traiD, standing on
side track directly opposite the one he
was in, sat a man for whom he had just
been working at Baltimore. By good
luck the man did not turn around, so he
was undiscovered. On reaching Phila
delphia he inquired his way to the New
York trains, and arrived in that city on
the 4th of September, 1838.
ODD ACCIDENTS.
At Pino Bluff, Ark., ft sheriff’s posse
surrounded tho residence of adesperato
thiof. Ho jumped from a window and
ran for the woods. One pursuer out
stripped his fellows, and the next fleet
est mistook him for tho thiof and shot
him.
At Kansas City, as a man was sitting
on the bnloony of his house, a steam
boat ran into it and crashed hint to
death. (This was during tho April
Hoods.)
At Canton, Ohio, James Littlo drank
some cold beer which paralyzed his
stomach and, forming carbonic acid gas,
his wholo Bystem, causing nearly in
stantaneous death.
At Nantiooke, Fa., John Lafsehuski
broko a bottlo of whisky in his pocket,
saturating his clotlios ; when he subse
quently lit a match they took fire, and
he was fatally burned-
In Adair county, Mo., two young
men agreed to bo photographed, with
pistols drawn on each other. The
artist, whilo arranging its position, dis-
harged ono of the pistols, shooting
the oppotrite sitter through the lungs.
At Eastporfc, Me., a sailor wanting a
drink of water and finding the cask
pump frozen, poured hot water into it,
and whilo attempting to suck ft drink
from it inhaled the steam and was
scalded to death.
At Pittsburg, Pa., Mike Maroney en
tered a core ovon in a foundry to .warm
himself, and another workman placed a
core on the truck, ran it in, closed tho
door and roasted him alive.
At Rixford, Pa., Lonis Gartliwait
lowered a forty-quart torpedo of nitro-
glyoerino into a well, when the well
made a sudden flow, struck the torpedo
and blew him to pieces.
At Green Ridge, Pa„ John Thompson
and his brother tried to stop a dog
fight, and the latter threw a stone at
he animals and, missing them, smashed
his brother's skull.
At St. Louis, Thomas J. Wharton,
Jr., took up a largo oystery- 1 said:
This is tho kind of oyster Walter
Brooks choked to death on," tried to
swallow it, and was choked to depth.
There is now a dog infirmary at the
West End of London, controlled by a
member of the Royal College of Veter
inary Surgeons. The wards are com
plete with every modern convenience
for the health and comfort ol patients.
A sanitarium has been arranged for the
reception of healthy animals, when
owners have no convenience for: them.
Special wards are also provided for oats
and birds. Annual subscribers of $5
have all the privileges of the infirmary.
At Dovercpurt, England, a boy named
Boast swallowed the sting of a wasp
while eating some preserves, and died
while running to the doctor’s.
Fish In a Block of lee.
In Virginia City, Nev., recently was
on exhibition u block of ice in which
were frozen several trout. The ice was
frozen by the company’s ice machine on
the divide, The trout were almost as
plainly visible as though they had been
suspended in tho air. They were in
natural attitudes, and appeared to have
congealed without knowing that any
thing unusual was happening to them.
As all their spots and oolors were dis
tinctly visible, and they stood immova
ble, with tails and fins expanded, they
would have formed a splenlid study
for an' artist. Indeed, wo think that
there is u bint that painters of such
subjects should not neglect. Bets were
made that they would thaw out "alive
and kicking,” and the block of ice was
accordingly placed in a tank and al
lowed to melt, but at last accounts the
trout were lying on the bottom appar
ently quite dead. Artificial freezing
was evidently too quick and. sharp for
Too Late.
"Can you let me have some olab-
beT?” asked a traveler at a farmhouse
not far from Austin.
■ "Yon can’t bive ; any;"’ replied the
honest-farmer; " I’vo just given it t^
the hogs. Firflt come, first peifted, you
you,”—Texas Siftings